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NBC‘S newest drama series Grimm has received a full-season pickup with an additional 9 episode order to round the show out to a 22 episode season. The new series fuses myth and fairy tale with the police procedural in an impressive and entertaining style. Created by Stephen Carpenter, David Greenwalt and Jim Koufwith, Grimm ranks as one of NBC’s highest-rated scripted […]
The Doctor Is In Hannibal Lecter is making the move to TV with NBC picking up a deal to make a new 13 episode series. The deal is with recently formed Gaumont International Television who’s CEO Katie O’Connell used to be NBC’s head of drama. Martha De Laurentiis who produced the Hannibal Lecter sequels will executive produce along […]
A True Modern Family Even though The Munsters aired for only 2 seasons between 1964-1966, the series became immensly popular in syndication and spawned several revival movies and follow ups decades later. Now NBC is planning to bring the show back to TV with ‘Pushing Daisies’ creator Bryan Fuller updating the classic show. The pilot script was recently submitted to the network […]
Producers Consider Shutting Down After Star Injury and Behind the Scenes Shake-Up Chris Vance is best known to TV audiences for his stint on season three of Prison Break – now he’s taking over the role made infamous by Jason Statham in Cinemax’s TV adaptation of The Transporter trilogy. Vance stars as Frank Martin, an ex-elite commando turned transporter, who delivers mysterious […]
Fast Five was a mega-hit both internationally and in the U.S and this has prompted Universal Pictures to consider shooting the next two installments back-to-back. In terms of cost cutting and reducing the time between releases, combining the planned sequels into one big production could prove financially viable and in the long term very lucrative. The recent ‘Harry Potter’ films and the ‘Twilight’ […]
It seems another reboot of a classic franchise is no more with ABC cancelling Charlie’s Angels after airing only four episodes. Production on the revival show has been shut down effective immediately, after the show generarted meagre since the series premiere, which failed to connect with the key 18-49 demographic. The show joins other failed franchise reboots such as ‘Knight […]
While fans of Jack Bauer are still waiting for the yet unconfirmed but proposed film version of 24, they will soon get to see Kiefer Sutherland in a new series that debuts early next year. Touch is from ‘Heroes’ creator Tim Kring and is a premonition style thriller that sees widower Sutherland finding a way to […]
Jonathan Nolan was recently at the 2011 Comic-Con promoting Person of Interest, his new CBS TV show developed with J.J. Abrams. The pilot episode has been well received by test audiences, and the Comic-Con screening generated similar buzz. It combines high-tech crime fighting with classic mystery and action, as well as some cool sci-fi elements thrown in for good measure. Starring former ‘Lost’ bad guy Michael Emerson and ‘Passion […]
Heres’ a new promo for Showtime’s upcoming Homeland that tackles the story a missing POW (Damian Lewis) who returns home only to come under the suspicions of a CIA agent (Claire Danes) as being a sleeper cell turncoat. V star Morena Baccarin who recently joined the cast plays Lewis’s distraught wife, and the always watchable Mandy Patinkin returns to […]
Steven Soderbergh brings us another one of his uplifting story’s in Contagion, a new flick that looks at the possibility of a highly infectious virus decimating the global population. While this undoubtedly is an intense thriller story, the trailer offers little hope of a happy ending with some of it’s big name stars not sticking around too long … sorry Gwyneth. […]
Production on the Dallas reboot is finally under way with TNT Greenlighting a new series. At one stage it wasn’t known if iconic actor Larry Hagman would be returning, but it seems he held out and got the right payday. Unlike other reboot shows like ‘Charlie’s Angels’ and ‘Hawaii Five-0’, the series will combine stars from the original with new […]
Fran Drescher’s latest TV show Happily Divorced might be taking the expression of ‘art imitating life’ to the extreme. In 1999, The Nanny star split with the show’s co-creator and husband of 21 years Peter Marc Jacobson – two years later, Jacobson came out of the closet. However when Drescher experienced her medical crisis, the two were brought together and moved past the difficulties of their […]
The Hulk continues to be an enduring character of Marvel‘s comics and though the big screen adaptations have been less than well received, the character has thrived on the small screen. The popular TV series of the 80’s which starred Bill Bixby as Dr David Banner and Lou Ferringo as The Incredible Hulk, remains a favorite with fans, and with last years acquisition […]
Though critically well received and a favourite with viewers, Starz has opted not to renew the period drama Camelot for a second season. It premièred in April as one of Starz’s highest-rated series début with 1.13 million viewers, later episodes saw a bit of a slump, however the show picked up towards the finale garnering similar numbers. The issue would seem not to […]